talmoon/spring lake info

[smurfy]

Oh like you don't ask fer it, maybe a little bit!

[rundrave]

8 hours ago, Wanderer said:

One of the houses is limited out on eyes.  We’re close.  The third house has fish but been struggling a little bit - with just about everything though.

How many people in your group were using forward facing sonar?

 

I’m starting to get more and more of the opinion the fish are starting to act differently because of these new ffs?  
 

I’m seeing lots of fish just come in on the edge of the screen and stop on a dime and just turn around and leave. 
 

Not all of the fish, but plenty of fish. Part of me wants to chalk it up to really really good clear ice with no snow on top of it and they are extra spooky. but I have a feeling these sonars are starting to affect the fish and they’re getting wise to them?

Edited 7 hours ago by rundrave

[Mike89]

sounds/or something from the ducer is my guess

[Kettle]

3 hours ago, rundrave said:

How many people in your group were using forward facing sonar?

 

I’m starting to get more and more of the opinion the fish are starting to act differently because of these new ffs?  
 

I’m seeing lots of fish just come in on the edge of the screen and stop on a dime and just turn around and leave. 
 

Not all of the fish, but plenty of fish. Part of me wants to chalk it up to really really good clear ice with no snow on top of it and they are extra spooky. but I have a feeling these sonars are starting to affect the fish and they’re getting wise to them?

I think we're just seeing fish we previously hadn't seen. I've realized a lot in the boat on clear lakes in shallow water a fish won't let you get within 50 ft. Last opener i was catching walleye in 4 ft. If the boat got within 50 ft the fish were gone

[Wanderer]

4 hours ago, rundrave said:

How many people in your group were using forward facing sonar?

 

I’m starting to get more and more of the opinion the fish are starting to act differently because of these new ffs?  

2/3 houses were running them.  And one of them had both a Mega Live and Garmin going at the same time last night.  That house did the best.  We did well.  The one without only got a few fish.

 

41 minutes ago, Kettle said:

I think we're just seeing fish we previously hadn't seen. I've realized a lot in the boat on clear lakes in shallow water a fish won't let you get within 50 ft. Last opener i was catching walleye in 4 ft. If the boat got within 50 ft the fish were gone

 

I think there’s also some of this going on.  We just see more.  That’s all there is to it.

 

I’m always wondering the fish are sensing them too and avoiding or not biting as aggressively but I would shut mine off for periods of time and our catch didn’t go up.  It really went down, but that could also be because the bite shut down and I was tired of looking at a blank screen, hoping they would come in with it off.

 

Now to say the house with most FFS power won because of that?  I don’t think so.  They were probably on a little bit better spot but they’re also very good fishermen.

 

The house that had none and did the worst was put ON the spot that did the best last year.  They were also the greenest fishermen that had a loud generator and may or may not have rigged their lines correctly.

 

What FFS has told me so far: there are no absolutes and things happen differently than we assumed in the past.

[Wanderer]

This was our overnight, last night.  The smaller perch were kept because of barotrauma.  

[rundrave]

30 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

What FFS has told me so far: there are no absolutes and things happen differently than we assumed in the past.

It’s so rewarding to see them come in and everything comes together and equally frustrating to see them come in and do nothing lol